Establish lab, win grants, hire researchers, 5 years of pre-planning and experiements, many dead-ends and failed experiments...deadline fast approaching, and then... break-through!
1 rogue researcher with designer stubble who has fucked all the female researchers brings a pot of soil into the lab one day, and plants an acorn seed and waters it. His collegues are confused but he begs for their patience...
Weeks of anxious waiting ensues, deadline is in less than a year, they need results! And then suddenly... a sapling appears! They can announce that they have achieved lab grown wood! The world's press rejoices, the planet is saved!
In the future you will lab grown wood and you will like it.
And yet, that one awesomely subbled researcher sometimes wakes at night in a cold sweat... questioning his methods...
"couldn't I have just planted that acorn outside in nature?" he asks himself, in his darker moments.
He carries his self-doubt with him to the grave. "no one shall ever know.... no one..."
Establish lab, win grants, hire researchers, 5 years of pre-planning and experiements, many dead-ends and failed experiments...deadline fast approaching, and then... break-through!
1 rogue researcher with designer stubble who has fucked all the female researchers brings a pot of soil into the lab one day, and plants an acorn seed and waters it. His collegues are confused but he begs for their patience...
Weeks of anxious waiting ensues, deadline is in less than a year, they need results! And then suddenly... a sapling appears! They can announce that they have achieved lab grown wood! The world's press rejoices, the planet is saved!
In the future you will lab grown wood and you will like it.
And yet, that one awesomely subbled researcher sometimes wakes at night in a cold sweat... questioning his methods...
"couldn't I have just planted that acorn outside in nature?" he asks himself, in his darker moments.
He carries his self-doubt with him to the grave. "no one shall ever know.... no one..."
I read his commentary in Principle Skinner's voice